FIT scholarship breakfast set  

-- Home Textiles Today, 1/27/2009 2:23:00 PM

New York – Tickets are now on sale for the Fashion Institute of Technology Scholarship Awards Breakfast, sponsored by the Home Fashion Products Association.

The breakfast program will take place Tuesday, March 10 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Cipriani banquet hall, 110 E. 42nd St.

The honorees are Paulette Cole, president and ceo, ABC Home Furnishings, for the Retailer of the Year Award; and the Kahn family, founders of Croscill, Inc., for the Distinguished Family Leadership Award.

For information on the event, contact Vicki Guranowski, Educational Foundation for The Fashion Industries at (212) 217-4100 or contact Arthur Mortensen of the FIT Home Products Development Dept. at arthur_mortensen@fitnyc.edu or (212) 217-4979.

Breakfast chairs are: Carl Goldstein of S. Lichtenberg & Co., and J. Barry Leonard of Ex-Cell Home Fashions, Inc.